A year after an awareness campaign highlighting the need for a standalone hospice in Western Manitoba, a group of Brandonites working to bring compassionate end-of-life care has commitments for half the money it needs — when the project moves forward.

Pam Heath began volunteering with the Westman Hospice Association after her mother, Doris, died in 2024. The group supported her and her brother while they cared for their mom at home though a palliative care program. The Westman Hospice Association helped with respite.

"We desperately wanted to keep mom in her own home as long as we could, and we did right up to the end," Heath said. "It worked for us, but it can't work for everybody."

But she learned from the association that hospice care in Brandon wasn’t an option. The province's only

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